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Charlie Brooker has confirmed that no 2017 Wipe is forthcoming (Picture: Getty Images)

If Charlie Brooker’s annual end-of-year Wipe is one of the highlights of your festive viewing calendar, then here’s a bit of bad news – you’re not getting one this year.

The Black Mirror creator took to Twitter to break the bad news, saying that he was pretty much snowed under with other commitments and simply would not have had the time for the ever-popular annual review.

‘Got some good news and some bad news,’ he explained. ‘Bad news is no 2017 Wipe. Was set to do it but ran out of road.’

‘Am way behind on scripts/dev elsewhere and contrary to my optimistic delusions it turns out I can’t do 400 things at once.’

Got some good news and bad news. Bad news is no 2017 Wipe. Was set to do it but ran out of road. Am way behind on scripts / dev elsewhere and contrary to my optimistic delusions it turns out I can’t do 400 things at once. [1/3]

While Charlie may be leaving us without Wipe this year we do have a new series of Black Mirror to look forward to on Netflix very soon.

The trailers for two new episodes, Arkangel and Crocodile, dropped recently – with Arkangel, directed by Jodie Foster, seemingly exploring the theme of over-protective parents, while Crocodile examines the reliability of memories in its trailer.

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